To Do Tuesday #105

It sure has been nice to be home this week. I have been catching up on household chores and enjoying my sewing room. The weather has been perfect. Not too hot. Not too cool.

I plan on linking up with Carol Schmilt for To Do Tuesday. Come joing us.

Under the Needle Last Week

While I intended on working on a list of things, I got sucked into one major project ~ 2018 100 days 100 blocks ~ this week. This was my July UFO project that didn’t get pulled out until the quilt retreat. But I ended up only working on my new exciting project 2024 AG Venti Sunprint FPP Quilt at the retreat.

After putting in the layout in Electric Quilt 8 (EQ8), I fell in love with a cornerstone/sashing layout. My EQ8 printout has the colors reversed for the cornerstones. In reality, I went with the colorwash layout of cornerstones.

I found working on this project from 2018 was like having a whole new project that I just could not put down. You might even say I have been obsessed to get to the end to see how it turns out. The sashing fabric I found last week has been perfect.

The other projects that I did work on this week were:

• July Temperature Cottage
• Ruby’s Garden Block 24. Sashing now made. In the act of adding it to the block now
• Finished my August Monthly Color Challenge. The color was purple. I loved these purples from the 2023 Alison Glass Sunprint collection.

July Goals Completed

1. 2024 SJ Temperature Cottage – Finished June Cottage
2. 2024 SJ Temperature Cottage – Started July Cottage
3. Finished 2023 100 days 100 blocks : 93 -100
4. Finished 64 patch block for the Scrappiness is Happiness 2023 SAL
5. Completed 4 blocks (via leaders/enders) for the March 2023 Block of the Month: Daydreamer
6. Completed churn dash block
7. Cut all the blocks from the Postmark collection for the new SAL with Alison Glass: Stamp Quilt
8. Started and finished the block itself for Ruby’s Garden
9. 2024 AG Venti Sunprint FPP Quilt ~ blocks cut & organized. Finished all 8 pineapple blocks and 4 of the 12 snail trail blocks

August Goals

I am listing my top 3 from each category that I keep my WIPS in (SAL, UFO, EPP, Applique, Small Projects (1), & Long Arm Project (1) )

1. 2024 Temperature Cottage Quilt ~ Finish July / Start August
2. ✔️ Finish August Monthly Color Challenge Block
3. 2023 Batik 100 days 100 blocks ~ Assemble Top including borders
4. 2023 AG Sunprint 100 days 100 blocks ~ Assemble rows
5. 2019 AG Christmas 100 days 100 blocks ~ assemble backing
6. *2022 TP Tiny Beast ~ Assemble Top including borders
7. Ruby’s Garden EPP ~ Finish block #24 including sashing
8. 1920 AG Farmers Wife EPP – Start Block #47
9. 2023 TP Queen of Diamond EPP – Cut & glue baste March blocks / Start blk 3-1
10. *Applique: Finsh Christmas Year in Words
11. Applique: Finish Blooming Pointsettas
12. Applique: Begin machine appliquing Bunny Knoll from On Wander Lane
13. Finish Patriotic Table Runner
14. *Quilt 2021 Sunshine Bed quilt

I am sure you are aware my list is way longer than this but these are my priorities for this month. I finished ✔️ the first of these goals this week.

I am always trying new approaches to getting things done. This month, I am focusing on my *priority projects first, then these top projects. I will be putting the next step in all my other active projects as well. I am really good at putting stuff on hold with my cross stitch projects. I was thinking, I need to be more diligent with doing that with my quilty projects. The other thing I do often with my cross stitch projects is when something is close to being done, I push to finish it to take it off the board. August I am going to apply that same philosphy to my quilting. We shall see how it goes.

Afterthoughts

I spent so much time on the road in July, I would like to take a moment to catch my breath. I loved the quilt retreat and had some time to reflect on my over 100 WIPs to see what I might be able to do to at least move more to the TO BE QUILTED pile. Which is another discussion.

While pulling together projects to take to the retreat, I realized, I could have pulled at least 20 projects that just need to be assembled, another half dozen that just need borders, and then I also have a ton of precut just need to be sewed projects. In 15 minutes, I had pulled backup 15 projects to take to the retreat.

Until this year, I had not started more than 1 or 2 new quilt projects. But yet, I wasn’t finishing the quilt tops. I am tired of not starting any new projects, so 2024 has me with 3 new quilt projects already with more in my head. I need to make room for all those new projects. Let’s see how it goes this month. With as much fun as I have been having pulling out the 2018 blocks, I think this could be pretty exciting.

Thank you for following my quilting journey as I figure this all out. Hope you see something that inspires or helps you! Here are my babies saying HI 👋

Happy Quilting

Peggy in San Jose, California